Can you put a website IN a form?

[interspectrum]

I am making a appointment database that will record and track
appointments made. Basically this will be just a database to aid in
printing out appointment information so our people have a common form
to use when taking sales calls.

We have an appointment schedule that runs as a web application on our
internal web server. I don't care to get too fancy so I don't need to
transfer information between access and the website.

I only need to place the website on the form. Is there an object that
I can embed on the form that will have the website show up? Is there
an IE browser window object?

 

[Dirk Goldgar]

I am making a appointment database that will record and track
appointments made. Basically this will be just a database to aid in
printing out appointment information so our people have a common form
to use when taking sales calls.

We have an appointment schedule that runs as a web application on our
internal web server. I don't care to get too fancy so I don't need to
transfer information between access and the website.

I only need to place the website on the form. Is there an object that
I can embed on the form that will have the website show up? Is there
an IE browser window object?

Among the ActiveX controls available (on most systems, anyway) via the
Insert -> ActiveX Control... dialog, or by clicking the "More Tools..."
button on the Controls toolbar in form design, there is a "Microsoft Web
Browser" control that I *think* can be used with Access. It's a bit
obscure how you actually use it, and I haven't done so myself, but I
believe if you search the Microsoft KnowledgeBase for info you should
find some instructions.

 

[interspectrum]

You pointed me in the right direction, but I could not figure out how to use
the control. So I did some more searching and I found an article at
http://facultypartners.cua.edu/kbase/Access/Customization/vieweb.cfm and
from that I got it to work. Thank you!

 

[Dirk Goldgar]

You pointed me in the right direction, but I could not figure out how
to use the control. So I did some more searching and I found an
article at
http://facultypartners.cua.edu/kbase/Access/Customization/vieweb.cfm
and from that I got it to work. Thank you!

You're welcome. I'm glad you got it to work, and thank you for posting
the link.

 

[interspectrum]

Well, after some testing, it works but not totally. The web site it points
to is our internal web calendar script. The data form that you enter
appointment information is a standard html form text box. When using this
control, the text box does not respond to the enter key. In other words, the
user can not advance to the next line in a text box in an html form. This
only happens when using the web browser control. In IE directly, everything
is fine.

Any ideas? Does Access trap the enter key?